One, Two, Three, Four, Five

You may have noticed… I have been thinking about writing more.

Which, historically, is a thing I am extremely good at thinking about.

Writing is somewhat more complicated.

So I have apparently responded to this problem by creating a framework.

Because Of Course I Have.

The system is this:

Monday: Play.
Tuesday: Spirit.
Wednesday: Mind.
Thursday: Body.
Friday: Life.

And today is Wednesday.

Mind day.

The day on which I am writing about the system I invented for writing.

This feels extremely on brand.

The idea is not that I need five different versions of myself.

It is almost the opposite.

I have a lot of things I am curious about.

I think about Developer Experience and open source and technology. I think about leadership. I think about consciousness and metaphysics and whether we actually know anything about anything.

I think about my body and what it means to take care of it.

I think about spirituality and loving kindness and how to be a person in relationship with other people without disappearing into them.

I think about life.

And I would also, occasionally, like to be deeply unserious.

So I made some buckets.

On Mondays, I am going to play.

I don’t entirely know what that means yet.

That is sort of the point.

Tuesday is Spirit.

For the next while, I want to spend Tuesdays moving through my Sutra of Loving Kindness and Being a few lines at a time.

Not explaining it.

Sitting with it.

Seeing what happens.

Wednesday is Mind.

This is where the nerd shit goes.

Developer Experience. Technology. Leadership. Philosophy. Metaphysics. Things I am learning. Questions I can’t stop poking.

Including, apparently, posts about the organizational taxonomy of the blog itself.

Meta.

Thursday is Body.

Movement. Food. Rest. Somatics. Health. Pleasure. Strength. The strange experience of having a consciousness that requires hydration.

And Friday is Life.

This one is intentionally fuzzy.

Relationships. Family. Home. Adventures. Burning Man. Stories. Things that happened. Things I noticed. Things that don’t fit neatly into one of the other buckets.

Life, inconveniently, refuses to maintain a clean taxonomy.

I respect that.

There are projects tucked into some of these days, too.

I have a technical project called Other People’s Computers.

A leadership project called Speak Softly / Carry a Big Stick.

A metaphysical project called The Extraordinary Insanity Experiment, which contains entirely reasonable goals like understanding the nature of reality and inventing time travel.

There is a health project called Wake Up Beauty, It’s Time to Beast.

There is a larger project that contains all the projects.

Because apparently my hobbies include recursive project management.

Some of those will probably start appearing here.

But I don’t want this to become a publishing schedule in the grim Content Strategy sense.

I don’t want to wake up on Thursday thinking,

Shit. I owe the internet a Body.

I want a little structure.

A trellis, maybe.

Something things can grow on without deciding beforehand exactly what shape they are allowed to become.

And I want to experiment with the form itself.

Maybe some posts are photographs I took.

Maybe one week I don’t write anything and make a video instead.

Maybe there are tiny posts.

Maybe there are enormous ones.

Maybe something starts as Mind and wanders into Spirit and takes a detour through Life before falling face-first into Play.

YUP.

Also: this entire system might be bullshit.

I have constructed a lovely little five-day taxonomy on a Monday in October and am now explaining it to you two days later as though I have discovered the periodic table.

We will see.

Maybe in three weeks I will have faithfully written something every weekday.

Maybe Play will eat everything.

Maybe I will discover that Body and Spirit are secretly the same category.

Maybe Friday will become pictures of cats.

Maybe I will completely ignore this framework the moment something more interesting happens.

Honestly, I hope I do.

Because I don’t think the point of this experiment is to become better at following a content calendar.

I think the point is to notice what I want to make.

The framework just gives me somewhere to begin.

So.

For the next few weeks:

Play.
Spirit.
Mind.
Body.
Life.

Probably.

Let’s see what actually happens.